Russia on the Black sea, Anarchist struggle for FIRST MAY -
POLICE VIOLENCE IN NOVOROSSYSK.

Date Sat, 6 May 2000 17:25:05 -0400

There are many problems in Novorossysk, the city near Black Sea:
corruption,
poverty, really strong fascist movement, terribly anti-ecologist
construction
of oil-transporting station near Black sea... Guys from FAK (Kuban's
anarchist
federation) decided to make REALLY PEACEFUL antifascist and antiglobalist
First May action and gig. But authorities prohibited them to make the gig,
2 anarchist and ecologist activists were interrogationed by FSB (Former
KGB).

In the First May's eve, when activists from Krasnodar, Sochi, Belorechensk
and
Kropotkin (town near Black sea) came to support First May demonstration,
policemen forced them to seat in the cars and they were deportationed from
Novorossysk on April'30 night! And the coolest event: one guy from Moscow
also
wanted to support this First May demonstration and when he came to
Novorossysk railway station (he didn't know anything about police
repressions),
he was arrested and beaten by policemen as they were trying to find a bomb
he
had to have! Total bullshit! Now some Novorossysk human rights
organisations
are trying to focus mass-media's attention on these events.